Christopher "C-dub" Wang is a suburban guy who sports an urban swagger, waxes political on all things Asian American, and clings to pipe dreams of a career as a pro basketball player. Blaming genetics for his failure to make the NBA, C-dub lives at home, works a dead-end job, and squirms in the shadow of his older brother, Michael, a doctor and ping pong champion.

With a family-run store devoted to all things ping pong and a mom who teaches it at the local Chinese Community Center, the Wangs’ entire world revolves around the sport. But despite the family legacy, C-dub opts to spend his free time playing video games and daydreaming about get-rich quick schemes with his best friend JP Money.

C-dub is kicked back into reality when his mom and Michael are hurt in a car accident, leaving his father to watch over the store and forcing C-dub to take over his mom’s ping pong class of misfits. C-dub starts to appreciate the benefits of ping pong when he starts using the class to make some extra money on the side and befriending one of the kids who happens to have a beautiful older sister.

But when the Wang family livelihood is threatened by a rival ping pong player’s attempts to lure the kids away, C-dub begins to take things more seriously. With the National Golden Cock Tournament coming up and an injured Michael unable to defend his title, C-dub must become the player he pretends to be and defend his family’s ping pong dynasty.

This Saturday, September 6th, Academy-Award (BREATHING LESSONS) winning
Director Jessica Yu and actor Jimmy Tsai will be in town to promote their new film
PING PONG PLAYA. They will be at the Metreon for Q&A's after the 4:15pm
showing and the 7:00pm showing and will introduce the 10:00pm show. Following the
last showing, Jessica and Jimmy will co-host with Hyphen a free after party at
Straits Cafe (845 Market Street, #4). It is an over-21 event and admittance
is by ticket stub.

On Sunday, September 7th, Jessica Yu and Jimmy Tsai will be in San Jose for Q&
A's at the 4:00pm and the 6:40pm screening. After the 6:40pm screening,
audience members are invited to join Jessica and Jimmy at South First Billiard
(420 1st Street in San Jose - a few blocks from the theater) for some fun times
and ping-pong playing (ping pong tables will be on hand). Admittance is by
ticket stub.